(a) An issuer or an issuer’s official or official body on behalf of the issuer may appoint for such term as may be agreed, including for as long as a registered public obligation may be outstanding, corporate or other authenticating agents, transfer agents, registrars, paying or other agents and specify the terms of their appointment, including their rights, their compensation and duties, limits upon their liabilities and provision for their payment of liquidated damages in the event of breach of certain of the duties imposed, which liquidated damages may be made payable to the issuer, the owner or a financial intermediary. None of such agents need have an office or do business within this state. The provisions of this subsection shall not relieve any issuer from any obligation applicable to it pursuant to § 7-373.

Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 42b-7

  • banks: shall include all incorporated banks. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Financial intermediary: means a bank, broker, clearing corporation or other person or the nominee of any of them, which in the ordinary course of its business maintains registered public obligation accounts for its customers, when so acting. See Connecticut General Statutes 42b-1
  • Issuer: means a public entity which issues an obligation. See Connecticut General Statutes 42b-1
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Obligation: means an agreement of a public entity to pay principal and any interest thereon, whether in the form of a contract to repay borrowed money, a lease, an installment purchase agreement, or otherwise, and includes a share, participation, or other interest in any such agreement. See Connecticut General Statutes 42b-1
  • Official or official body: means the officer or board that is empowered under the laws of one or more states, including this state, or by the charter, ordinance, resolution or other authorization of the issuer, to provide for original issuance of an obligation of the issuer, by defining the obligation and its terms, conditions and other incidents, the successor or successors of any such official or official body and such other person or group of persons as shall be assigned duties of such official or official body with respect to a registered public obligation under applicable law from time to time. See Connecticut General Statutes 42b-1

(b) An issuer or an issuer’s official or official body on behalf of the issuer may agree with custodian banks and financial intermediaries and nominees of any of them in connection with the establishment and maintenance by others of a central depository system for the transfer or pledge of registered public obligations. Any such custodian banks and financial intermediaries and nominees may, if qualified and acting as fiduciaries, also serve as authenticating agents, transfer agents, registrars, paying or other agents of the issuer with respect to the same issue of registered public obligations.

(c) Nothing shall preclude the issuer from itself performing, either alone or jointly with other issuers, any transfer, registration, authentication, payment or other function described in this section.

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